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...Physical Colloquium. "Recent Progress in Schumann Region," by Professor Lyman, in Room 25, Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
...will appear the subjects in which he has attained honor grades, with the mark he has received in each. This seems to us an improvement over the present system. The pamphlet is primarily intended for the perusal of parents and others vitally interested in their sons' or friends' progress; and for such it will be more easily consulted in its new form. It will not be so convenient, however, for those men who make use of the Rank List in choosing their courses, by a careful study of the number and personnel of honor...
...remarkable progress of the last century has established a new profession, based on laws which that progress itself has revealed. So we may now distinguish between the skilled mechanic and the newer type, the engineer. The former is actuated by commercial motives only; the latter, the creation of the advance in natural sciences, possesses knowledge rather than skill and has for his ideal the ultimate benefit of mankind. This latter type is the man we refer to when we speak of the engineer; his profession is engineering...
...with human nature. Faraday said: "It requires twenty years to make a man in the physical sciences." The young engineer must have infinite optimism and hope. Yet the result more than repays this delay; for there is no satisfaction so great as the realization that one has advanced the progress of mankind...
...anyone interested in what the present administration has done in the past year, or may attempt to do in the future, will find therein an excellent synopsis of advancement during 1910-11 as well as the foreshadowing of one or two changes to come. Aside from a report of progress along lines already laid down, we notice four points well worthy of comment...